Jun 18, 2018
20 Things That Take Longer Than the Nose Ascent
Basically anything
El Capitan
Jun 13, 2018
Even Tommy Caldwell Questioned the Nose Speed Record
Last week, Tommy Caldwell and Alex Honnold set the speed record on the Nose. But even they're not sure it was a great idea.
Jun 6, 2018
Honnold and Caldwell Break Two Hours on El Cap's Nose
Over the past week, the duo has made repeated attempts to climb the Nose route on Yosemite's El Capitan in under two hours. They finally succeeded.
Jun 4, 2018
The Outrageously High Cost of Speed Climbing
Days after Alex Honnold and Tommy Caldwell broke the speed record on the Nose, two experienced climbers died on El Cap. Has speed climbing gotten too deadly?
May 9, 2018
Hans Florine on His Terrifying El Cap Fall
Last week, the legendary speed climber broke bones in both legs when he fell and hit a ledge after a piece of protection popped 2,200 feet up the rock face
Feb 20, 2018
Yosemite Climbing Pioneer Jim Bridwell Dies
Wearing wild paisley shirts and bell-bottomed pants, smoking cigarettes and posing with rebellious insouciance, Bridwell and his partners created an utterly new image of the rock climber as anti-establishment biker-hippy-hardass, while sending routes harder and more terrifying than anything done before
Dec 13, 2017
'I Have Snorted Again. Will I Handstand Again?'
Big-wall climber Quinn Brett fell 100 feet while climbing El Capitan. Now paralyzed, she thinks back to her accident and reimagines her future.
Dec 12, 2017
The Agony and Ecstasy of Free Climbing El Capitan
Rob Miller worked for seven years to develop a new line up Yosemite's tallest wall. In the end, it all came down to a few short moves.
Sep 29, 2017
A First-Person Account of the Fatal Yosemite Rockfall
Writer and climber Jeff Johnson was near the base of El Cap when a chunk of rock the size of an apartment building broke off above him. Here's what he saw next.
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